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Causes and consequences · Part 1 of 3
6 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 8 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 2 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
Describe what it means to examine the causes of a significant historical event, and describe the five measures by which an event's significance is judged.
Explain in depth why a tightly defined historical event can be explained more directly than a broadly defined one, using an example of each.
Comprehensively examine the difference between a cause that acts directly on an event and one that acts only through intermediate steps, and explain how a historian should treat the second kind.
Explain how you would define a historical event so that its causes and its consequences stay distinct from each other, and how you would decide whether it is significant.
Explain in depth how to test whether two consequences of an event are genuinely different from each other, and why two consequences drawn from the same domain tend to function as one.
Comprehensively examine the problem of deciding what counts as a cause of an event, and explain how a historian should write when the accounts they have read disagree about it.